Executive Summary

This project is designed to support the ongoing work of the ROBO 4XX quadcopter teams by creating and documenting a web service hosted on the BBB that allows for telemetry from the quadcopter over WiFi (USB Dongle). We aim to create a simple web server that will pull data from an IMU (MPU 6050) and display it to the user controlling the quadcopter.

Packaging

The hardware for this project consists of a wifi USB dongle and an i2c imu. Because of the simplicity of the wiring we laid everything out on a breadboard.

Necessary Hardware

Installation Instructions

In order to use the UWNx00 wifi dongle (one of the latter two), you can follow the instructions here. Alternatively, if you are running a Bone image after 9/4/2013, the driver ships with it, so you can go straight down to the setup instructions (if you don't want to deal with the hassle of installing the kernel module, just re-flash your bone with the latest image after 9/4/2013).

In order to use the MPU6050, the following packages must be installed: